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Re:Browse Against the Machine by astrobe_ on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:18PM (#14439835)
I think features play can play a role. I switched to DuckDuckGo a long time ago more because of their extra features than because of Google. The old Opera was also moderately successful because of their proxy-like feature (it was pre-rendering webpages and compressing the result) that was very appreciated by mobile users. Before their downfall they also integrated peer-to-peer file sharing and chat.

I believe that maybe Firefox has a card to play with decentralization. Think something like IPFS or MediaGoblin easy-to-use integration.

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Re:Browse Against the Machine by scandox on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:35PM (#14439936)
I think the problem is that once you consider "features" in general, it tends to diffuse attention from what is absolutely essential. Of course nobody can know what is essential. But someone with vision needs to kick everything non-essential into touch and pick something.

My vote is for speed. Then again, I use almost no non-core features of any browser.

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